Differences in the risk of cardiovascular disease across ethnic groups

South Asian, but not black African or Caribbean individuals, have a higher risk of CVD compared to white European individuals. This higher risk in South ...

Heart Disease Risk: How Race and Ethnicity Play a Role

And American Indians are three times more likely than whites to have diabetes. Health disparities. These differences between racial and ethnic groups are called ...

Differences in CVD risk between ethnicities is well evidenced, with South Asian (SA) and black African or Caribbean (BAC) individuals displaying an increased ...

ETHNIC DIFFERENCES IN CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE - PMC

Stroke risks are greater in women than in men, and are reflected in ethnic differences in blood pressure, with mean resting systolic blood pressure being 6 mm ...

examining differential exposure and susceptibility to risk factors ...

Ethnic differences in cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk have been known for decades, but a systematic exploration of how exposure and ...

Race, Racism, and Cardiovascular Health: Applying a Social ...

Black adults experience higher burden of CV risk factors such as hypertension and obesity, and are more than twice as likely to die of CVD, ...

Racial disparities and prevalence of cardiovascular disease risk ...

Hypercholesteremia was a CVD risk factor almost equally experienced by all races and ethnic groups, ranging from 24.5 to 28.0% (Fig. 2). Non- ...

Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Heart Disease - CDC

From 1999 through 2017, death rates for heart disease decreased for all racial and ethnic groups. The rate of decrease for each group slowed in ...

Racial and Ethnic Differences in All-Cause and Cardiovascular ...

We observed a heterogeneous pattern across the 3 non-White racial and ethnic groups. Black participants had elevated risk of all-cause mortality ...

Trends in Cardiovascular Risk Factors in US Adults by Race and ...

Racial and ethnic differences in cardiovascular disease mortality persist despite a significant reduction in the cardiovascular disease burden ...

Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Primary Prevention of ...

Cardiovascular disease (CVD) is a global health concern and is responsible for a third of deaths worldwide. Over the past 100 years, the rates of CVD mortality ...

Race and ethnicity: Clues to your heart disease risk? - Harvard Health

But certain minority groups face a greater risk than others. These differences appear to stem from an increased prevalence of high blood ...

Heart Disease and African Americans | Office of Minority Health

In 2019, African Americans were 30 percent more likely to die from heart disease than non-Hispanic whites. · Although African American adults are ...

Ethnic Variation in Cardiovascular Disease Risk Factors Among ...

In general, the ethnic differences in BMI, percentage of energy from fat, blood pressure, and glycosylated hemoglobin level were also apparent in adults, 25 to ...

Comparison of cardiovascular risk profiles among ethnic groups ...

Cardiovascular diseases, including stroke, are the leading causes of death worldwide. · With over 1.8 million people of South Asian, Chinese or ...

Ethnic Disparities in the Risk Factors, Morbidity, and Mortality of ...

In population-wide data from NHANES 2017-2020, the age-adjusted prevalence of all heart disease was 11.5% among European Americans, 10.0% among African ...

Cardiovascular risk factors: differences between ethnic groups

the main differences were obesity, dyslipidemia, pre-systemic arterial hypertension/systemic arterial hypertension, and increased circumferences, with a worse ...

Heart disease and racial disparities - UChicago Medicine

Because of higher rates of other cardiovascular risk factors such as diabetes, smoking, obesity, physical inactivity and high blood pressure, ...

Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Primary Prevention of ...

Cardiovascular disease (CVD) disproportionately affects ethnic-minority groups globally. Ethnic-minority groups face particularly high CVD burden and ...

Ethnic group differences in cardiovascular risk assessment scores

Ethnicity, as an independent risk factor for CVD, can be accounted for in CVD risk scores primarily using two methods, either directly incorporating it as a ...